Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday following a spat with President Donald Trump over breaking party lines on a continuing resolution vote that it feels like 2020.

“It feels just like 2020 — March 27th, 2020 — when I was the only one to oppose the CARES Act [the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act]. The president threatened me. I got 81% of the vote. And then what happened? The spending bill caused all this massive inflation that we see now,” Massie told reporters on the Capitol steps after the Republican-controlled House passed the continuing resolution.

Massie, who’s drawn the ire in recent days from Trump, called out the president in a video posted to X, saying the spending bill did not represent “Trump’s agenda.”

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